War

The head of the Egyptian army that led the US-backed coup will run for president as many expected. War is politics by any other means.

America's Ukrainian coup leaders.
"“[Ukrainian ambassador] Geoffrey Pyatt is one of these State Department high officials who does what he’s told and fancies himself as a kind of a CIA operator,” laughs Ray McGovern, who worked for 27 years as an intelligence analyst for the agency. “It used to be the CIA doing these things,” he tells Democracy Now. “I know that for a fact.” Now it’s the State Department, with its coat-and-tie diplomats, twitter and facebook accounts, and a trick bag of goodies to build support for American policy."

Iraqi election commission quits en mass over interference during the war.